Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781107130128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 201 str.

Bonnie Lander Johnson

Opis

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Unchastity in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Caroline court performance and theological dispute; 2. Chastity, medical controversy and the theatre of John Ford; 3. Chastity, William Harvey's demonstrations and court ceremony; 4. Marian chastity: Caroline masques and Henrietta Maria's chaste births; 5. Protestant chastity: the language of resistance in Milton's 'A Maske' and A Maske; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.